🔥 Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Government & Policy,dod,Anthropic,pete hegseth,supply chain risk,Senator Elizabeth Warren 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Anthropic is attracting a growing number of supporters in its fight against the US Department of Defense, which last month designated an artificial intelligence lab as a supply chain risk after it refused to compromise on how the military uses its artificial intelligence. In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) equated the Defense Department's decision to "retaliation," arguing that the Pentagon could have simply terminated its contract with the AI lab, CNBC…
🚀 Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: TC,Startups,Venture,AI 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Stanford assistant professor and exiting founder, Zain Asghar, has raised an $80 million Series A for a startup that is working to solve a bottleneck in AI inference in an intelligent way. The round was led by Menlo Ventures. Gimlet Labs has created what it claims is the first and only “multi-silicon inference cloud,” software that allows an AI workload to run simultaneously across different types of devices. It can split the work of an AI application across both traditional CPUs and AI-tuned GPUs, as…
💥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,Fundraising,Startups,AI app,LittleBird 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: There has been a lot of talk about building context for AI systems. In consumer software, we've seen startups built around search, documents, and meetings. They all want to capture context from your digital life, provide connections to other tools, and let you query all that data. Some tools went even further. For example, Rewind (which became Limitless and was sold to Meta) and Microsoft Recall aim to capture everything that happens on your screen and help you remember everything. A new startup…
✨ Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Security,Startups,Delve,Insight Partners ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Delve, a Y Combinator-backed compliance startup accused of fabricating testimonials for its clients, has disabled the “Book a Demo” feature on its website. The controversy, which was detailed last week in a Substack post by an anonymous whistleblower known as “DeepDelver,” appears to have prompted Insight Partners to delete an article explaining its $32 million investment in the startup. Claiming to be a former client, DeepDelver alleged that Delve, which was valued at $300 million during a Series A funding round last year, fabricated…
🔥 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,Gadgets,Apple,wwdc,WWDC 2026 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Apple announced Monday that its next Worldwide Developers Conference will be held June 8-12 online and at its headquarters in Cupertino, California. The iPhone maker said this year's conference — at which it typically announces new software and features across its range of devices — will focus on "AI advances" along with updates to platforms such as iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, new software and developer tools. The conference will be streamed live on the Apple Developer app, Apple website, and the Apple Developer YouTube…
✨ Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Startups,In Brief,Lovable,vibe coding ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Lovable, the AI-powered app building platform that was recently valued at $6.6 billion, is looking for acquisitions. On Monday, the startup's co-founder and CEO, Anton Osika, announced on X that the company was looking for "more great teams and startups to join Lovable." “Many of the people in key roles at Lovable were founders just before joining us,” he wrote in a post. “We have built our culture in such a way that founder types thrive internally, are able to act independently and…
🔥 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,bernie sanders,Claude 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: In a new video that has gone viral, Senator Bernie Sanders attempts to expose how the AI industry poses a threat to Americans' privacy, but ends up showing how AI-powered chatbots' tendency to agree with and flatter their users can lead to chatbots themselves becoming a mirror of users' private beliefs rather than a tool for discovery. We've seen this problem before among the growing number of people suffering from "AI psychosis," which is when an AI-powered chatbot reinforces the irrational thoughts and beliefs…
💥 Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,advertising,Apple,Apple Maps,In Brief,Maps 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Apple Maps has never been considered the best navigation app (that honor obviously goes to Google Maps), and now, if reports are correct, the user experience is about to take a hit, Bloomberg reports. Apple is preparing to introduce the change later this year, with an official announcement as soon as this month, sources told Bloomberg. Ads could start appearing in the iOS Maps app sometime this summer. Under this arrangement, businesses will bid for the opportunity to promote their business within…
🚀 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Commerce,Startups,Accel,Bain Capital,food delivery,Swish,Hara Global ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Swish, a Bengaluru-based food delivery startup, has raised $38 million in a new funding round, as the 18-month-old company continues to attract investor interest for its 10-minute fresh food delivery service. The Series B round, led by Hara Global and Bain Capital Ventures, saw participation from Accel, Stride Ventures and Alteria Capital. Swish is valued at $139 million, more than double its valuation a year ago, and brings total funding to $54 million. The funding comes at a time when fast food…
🔥 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Government & Policy,TC,Anthropic,atoms,Emil Michael,Kleiner Perkins,Travis Kalanick,Uber 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Emil Michael, who serves as the Defense Department's chief technology official, is back in the spotlight over the government's ongoing battle with Anthropic, and a newly released podcast interview offers one of the most detailed looks yet at his thinking on that dispute — as well as an unguarded settling of old scores from his days at Uber. The interview, released on Monday and conducted last month by Gobin Mirzadegan, a partner at Kleiner Perkins who leads the firm's investment…
